We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. – John Henry Newman

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. – Alexander Smith, “An Essay on an Old Subject”